Quotes & Sayings About Truisms

What are you on?' said AJ. 'Leon's mum has died and you are determined to add to the total sum of misery by going out with the girlfriend of the nastiest piece of manhood that was ever assembled in the factory of life ... — Sally Gardner

People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life. — Julia Quinn

Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation. — David Z. Hirsch

When you die I bet you want real life, pure real life, eulogies that are unpoetic and messy, smeared with tears and truisms, cliched as hell, the kind of stuff a person means. — Kate Hattemer

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere. — John F. Kennedy

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one. — Warren Eyster

So here are our truisms about truth:
Truth is objective.
Truth is good.
Truth is a worthy goal of inquiry.
Truth is worth caring about for its own sake. — Michael P. Lynch

But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true. — Patrick Rothfuss

Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ... — Garry Kasparov

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. — Catherine Aird

The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. — Arthur Koestler

Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter. — George Orwell

One of the truisms of CrossFit is that you should do the thing you hate most, because it's only in mastery that the hate will dissipate. — Stephen Madden

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre. — George Orwell

The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true. — Harold Monro

People hate truisms. — Angela Kendrick

Follow the rules until you make them. — Luke Green

The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue. — G.K. Chesterton

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true — Jack Kerouac

Just because someone's a pain in the ass in life, doesn't mean when they're dead, we shouldn't be respectful. — M. Judeth Nelson

I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind. — Karen Essex

The Bible does not want to be neatly packaged into three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day increments. It does not want to be reduced to truisms and action points. It wants to introduce dissonance into your thinking, to stretch your understanding. It wants to reveal a mosaic of the majesty of God one passage at a time, one day at a time, across a lifetime. — Jen Wilkin

She shrugged."I always put in long hours. I really wanted a wife."
He leaned toward her."Jilliam, honey, The whole world wants a wife. But we're gonna have to make do ... — Robyn Carr

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat. — Harland Miller

You never know what's coming for ya" from the 2008 American romantic fantasy drama film 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', directed by David Fincher. — Unknown

Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[ ... ]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action. — Steven Brust

It ain't over 'til it's over. — Yogi Berra

This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals is not their greater philanthropy, but their greater impatience. The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces. — Henry Hazlitt

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry. — Charles Stross

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. — Noam Chomsky

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker. — Bill Starr

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' — Frank Gaffney

There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young. — Eddie Whitlock

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. — Idries Shah

The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! — George Orwell

truisms at least have the merit of being true, which distinguishes them from a good deal of political discourse. And — Noam Chomsky

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. — Cliff Stearns

The theory of truth is a series of truisms. — J.L. Austin

Nice is for people we forget. — Tiffany Schmidt